This O Gauge Pannier came to me in quite poor condition, it was purchased without a detailed inspection by a friend, and it was a bit of a ‘lemon’.
After putting the bits that had fallen off back on securely and repairing other parts, the loco looked a lot better. The loco was not originally meant to be weathered, but I felt that I could cover several old glue marks with a light weathering (dusting).
These are the locos from my current batch of weathering.
88DS weathered as working at a cement factory
‘Wissington’ as working at a sugar beet factory (before being preserved)
J94 Yard Shunter – Medium weathering
Peckett Industrial ‘IMP’- Medium weathering
This is a rush job for Graham as it is needed on Saturday (1/3/25) at the O Gauge Guild Show at Kettering. This Loco will also appear on Morlock Heath, now owned by Graham. It has been weathered to a medium standard and with it working on Diesel power in an engineers yard.
This is a standard O Gauge Heljan Model, However as you view it today, it is not finished! I ordered some Oleo round Class 37 buffers as this Loco, 37050 retained round buffers during the period modelled, but sadly I have not received them! I really wish that Traders would only advertise what they have in stock and also not take my money before being in stock.
If anyone has a spare set of Heljan class 37 round oleo buffers will they please contact me through this site – shanks only would be fine.
This time we have two East Anglian based class 37’s. Both have the extra strengtheners in the cant rail grilles. They are both Heljan O Gauge models, but one is an older model with domino headcodes and buffer cowls, the other is a later Model with marker lights and no buffer cowls. I believe they were both March (MR) engines at the same time.
37084
37088
Here we have a pair of Scottish named Class 37’s as running in the early 80’s. They are Heljan O gauge Models. Both have received a medium weathering.
Loch Awe
Loch Rannoch
This is the latest Heljan O Gauge Class 45, the first time an ETH Loco has been produced by them. Here we have 45 109, a loco with all grills exposed and marker lights. This is pre headlight fitting, so firmly based in the early-mid 80’s. Its a bit of a plain selection and was never named. It is weathered in a medium ‘workaday’ condition.
These two locos were purchased by my Son for use on his Grub Lane Layout. They were purchased at a very good price in a recent sale. I have weathered them to a medium to heavy standard. They still need to have a crew added.
58XX
14XX
This is a model of 31404, one of the first batch of ETH fitted Class 31’s. I have modelled it to approx 1978-80 when it was allocated to Finsbury Park, it has their trade mark white stripe.
I used a brass kit to fill in the water filler cap and footsteps and then a partial respray, before a medium to heavy weathering.
I have started work on models again after a terrible month. I will not say any more, its best not mentioned here.
Anyway here we go again! this Loco 20048 and is weathered to a medium to heavy standard, I used all my usual methods, spraying, dry brushing and a few powders, using matt and gloss enamels,
